Boethius was executed by having a thong inexorably tightened about his temples. (88)
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As a boy, Tennyson could recite all 103 of Horace’s odes from memory.
Montaigne claimed he knew those and the rest of Horace as well. (89)
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No life back there at all.
What life here, now? (90)
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John Donne posed for a painting in his own shroud. And kept it beside his bed during a long final illness. (91)
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Why is Reader always mildly incredulous at remembering that the decimal system arose from counting on one’s finger? (92)
#Reader/Protagonist #Speculation

Several ancient oaks, also within the grounds, partly obscure the house. At night, the single bulb beyond one shaded downstairs window is extremely faint. 
There are wire mesh fences, in jagged disrepair.  (93)
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Käthe Kollwitz lost a son in World War I and a grandson in World War II. (94)
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Let us read Little Dorrit again. There are passages in that book I can never hear without the temptation to weep. (95)
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